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Wellington walloped by wild weather, as aftershocks continue
Wild weather walloped Wellington on Monday, as 1,300 aftershocks rattled the country. […]
Sunday’s major earthquake in North Canterbury has triggered more than 100,000 landslides, blocking roads and destroying bridges.
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Kaikoura remains cut off by road, after massive slips blocked or destroyed portions of State Highway 1. […]
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In Wellington, dozens of buildings were damaged by the main earthquake, including Statistics House, headquarters of Statistics NZ [one of the country’s main disinformation centers] on Harbour Quays.
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Meanwhile, wild weather triggered widespread flooding in the capital causing chaos on the roads. […]
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Links to NZ media reports:
- Live: 7.5 New Zealand earthquake
- Hutt Valley takes a pounding as floods follow earthquake
- Serious concerns over stability of building in central Wellington
- Floor pancaked at Stats NZ House
- Live: Wellington weather chaos
- Kaikoura: No way in, no way out – but help is at hand
- Canterbury police confirm [only] eight burglaries during post-quake evacuations
- GeoNet: There’s a 22 per cent chance of a massive aftershock above 7.0 this month
- Monday’s [sic] earthquake lifted seabed around Kaikoura ‘by at least a metre’, scientists confirm
- Day the earth cracked: Symmetrical fault lines on a rolling farmland show impact of deadly earthquake